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The Next Step In Surveillance: The Workplace

Amidst the almost daily circulation of preemptive warnings and conflicting information provided by the mainstream media about the surveillance state and the NSA, a new perspective of digital surveillance technology is beginning to surface: surveillance in the workplace conducted by private employers.

Ben Waber is chief executive of Sociometric Solutions, a start-up that grew out of his doctoral research at M.I.T.’s Human Dynamics Laboratory, which conducts research in the new technologies. Sociometric Solutions advises companies using sensor-rich ID badges worn by employees. These sociometric badges, equipped with two microphones, a location sensor and an accelerometer, monitor the communications behavior of individuals — tone of voice, posture and body language, as well as who spoke to whom for how long.

Sociometric Solutions is already working with 20 companies in the banking, technology, pharmaceutical and health care industries, involving thousands of employees. The workers must opt in to have their data collected. Mr. Waber’s company signs a contract with each one guaranteeing that no individual data is given to the employer (only aggregate statistics) and that no conversations are recorded.

“Privacy policy,” Mr. Waber said, “is going to have to deal with the workplace and not just the consumer issues.”

The payoff for well-designed workplace monitoring, Mr. Waber said, can be significant. The underlying theme of human dynamics research is that people are social learners, so arranging work to increase productive face-to-face communication yields measurable benefits.

For example, the company studied workers in Bank of America call centers and observed that those in tightknit communications groups were more productive and less likely to quit. To increase social communication, the shared 15-minute coffee break was introduced to the daily routine. Afterward, call-handling productivity increased more than 10 percent, and turnover declined nearly 70 percent, Mr. Waber said.

Mr. Waber’s company also provided the data-guided insight to help the pharmaceutical company increase sales with its new cafe area. At a tech company, his company found, workers who sat at larger tables in the cafeteria, thus communicating more, were more productive than workers who sat at smaller tables.

The implementation of this technology into the private workplace will likely raise some strong privacy concerns, but according to advocates for the technology, the rights of private employers to manage their operations as they see best is rooted in the heart of private capitalism (see a recent NYT article on employers carrying life insurance on their employees for their own benefit here). 

The law, for the most part, supports this view by giving employees little privacy protection. As my employment law students will tell you, employers can do almost anything they want in the workplace to reduce an employee's privacy, as long as they let the employee know. Then, according to most cases, the employee has "consented" to the privacy invasion by showing up at work. How far this "logic" will go has never been tested in extreme cases (could the employer video record in restrooms as long as a sign is posted? Think that is extreme? How about personal surveillance of urine drug testing - happens all the time...) My guess is, as a legal matter, as long as employees are aware of the surveillance, the courts won't get involved. As a policy matter, however, it will be interesting to see whether legislatures get involved. And if no protections come from legislatures, employees will have to decide if they are being paid enough to have their privacy invaded.

-RM